2 Comments Posted by barto.j@sbcglobal.net

My uncle tended the boilers at this plant...the stacks were huge...it also had a steam whistle they would blow at noon and six pm and tthe sound traveled at least ten miles he started working there in 1931,left in 1949...during its heyday. they worked twenty four hours a day,7 days a week some intreresting facts...the boiler tubes were big enough for a man to crawl in,the top of the boiler was over 30 feet high...he recalled the use of inmate trustees that would shovel remains from the autopsy room directly into the fire box....he also worked the steam heat in the wards...he recalled inmates would sit on the steam radiators till there flesh cooked like meat,the screams form the severe wards could be heard all over the grounds

My uncle worked at the plant for years he relayed some gruesome stories about medical experiments and treatment of patients ...